A great European director

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2006)

It's a pity that movies like this one didn't get a roaring success. After having seen it twice, is really true that Giuseppe Tornatore must be considered as one of the best European filmmakers alive and one of a few able to tell us stories so impressive like "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso", "Malèna" or this one. Tim Roth plays magnificently his character and all the supporting actors too. Obviously, helped by the sensitive Ennio Morricone's score as well as the realist production design. ( How is possible that the Original Soundtrack not even got an Oscar nomination?). But this kind of movies aren't blockbusters and the audience prefer another kind of movies which is completely nonsense and plenty of special effects and played by beautiful bodies and faces...